Aidan63

Okay I have been getting on with my cab, 009, a few hours at a time when I can make time and space in the workshop It's a great kit, has gone together okay, the only real problem I had was the handle having holes almost in the right place was worse than not having any holes at all trying to line it up so handle was parallel with the face of the cab and then either opening up the holes or re-drilling them completely, anyway I tightened one handle screw when it wasn't lined up and ended up breaking a little bit of the plastic, ended up using a couple of coach screws at each end of the handle but will probably change to some counter sunk machine screws on final fit with nuts and washers, just need to find the right length in black Other than that my chiselling a channel for the speaking connector to sit in was a bit oversized and so I added a frame to the inside for extra support long term, glued and pinned it shouldn't come adrift One corner still not quite shaped to fit the corner protector and final fill and sand to do before painting, it will be a couple of weekends before it's finished I didn't have clamps long enough for clamping the top and bottom so resorted to weight to hold these in place while glue set - it would have been better with another 6 clamps really to be able to glue the 4 sides together all in one go - all the youtube videos of guitars and things being built show you can never have too many clamps

I fancy doing mine in TurboBlue - does anyone want to share a 2.5Kg tub of that colour, no 1Kg tubs to be had I can find. Would 800g be enough to do one cab ?

Love the Maple Fender closed tone thanks for posting

Hi Magnus I have your UBass book 😀 I won't be able to make the show unfortunately

My in was Fragile, so that still is my favourite and the line-up I think of as Yes, even though it probably isn't the best or the 'real' lineup but there's some good stuff on it and it works as a whole varied album

Scratchplate is black, contrast against the butterscotch blonde body and maple neck

anyone with plug in 'air freshner' is not to be trusted 😉

Where can you get the Status Hotwire Flatwounds from ? Google doesn't seem able to help, Status don't seem to list them except in short scale

I picked this up on Monday after a nice drive there and back over Snowdonia, it used to be @Beedster's https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/262287-fs-squier-classic-vibe-50s-precision-sd-pup-us-circuit-sold/?tab=comments#comment-2776167, as we know Chris has great taste in basses, especially Ps Previous owner hadn't used it a lot in the intervening period, hadn't cleaned it much if at all and I'm pretty certain it was wearing the same set of D'Addario strings that it had when sold last I spent a bit of time yesterday and this morning giving it a thorough clean and spot levelling the 8th fret which was causing a buzz on the A and D strings and set it up with a fresh set of flatwound Maruszczyk strings and wow, it is lovely, the neck adjusted to really flat and action to 2mm and the response across the strings is very even and the tone is just what I've been looking for, that sound that was in my head, that I'd been approaching with '57 on P style basses but not actually quite getting. I'm genuinely surprised at how good it is, even more surprised that none of the 22 who were watching it bid for it, I guess for once being in Wales counted in my favour, usually the nice basses are a long drive away and collection only, or overpriced or deeply flawed if delivery is included. The blue one that was listed and finished this week sold for a good bit more, though maybe had a better pickup in it, but this Seymour Duncan 1/4 pounder is good. It's really pretty without the scratchplate (included but no need to fit for me), 4 piece body really well done, I believe it is pine, anyway it is really nicely balanced, comfortable with the '54 contoured body, and the neck is just what you'd like from a P, 42mm nut and chunky enough, maybe not the fattest of the possible Fender profiles, single piece Maple with real rear fitted truss rod, and maybe there is something to be said for the tele shaped headstock in weight reduction which helps the balance Bit of a punt with Ebay, 3 hour round trip but quiet Welsh roads and the sun was shining, and a bit of work to make it nice but very definitely worth it 😀

Many thanks to Nick for selling me bargainous set of strings for my P Bass, all good, easy transaction, lots of comms 👍

Preloved Gator xl for sale on here https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/338856-gator-xl-guitar-case/

very noice big stash pocket on the back or does it have tone weights a la Stenback ?

relief of 0.3mm is 12 thou so that's a good starting point; so if your bridge saddles are towards the bottom of their adjustment and you can't lower the string height much more then an inch long strip of average business card at the butt of the neck joint will probably drop the action by a 1mm or so and a piece of .6mm veneer by maybe double that, you'll have to experiment. I have a piece of plasticard in one of my jazzes that is 0.46mm thick and it meant that I could raise my saddles back up so the adjusting screws weren't sticking up out of the saddles and jabbing my palm when I am trying to palm mute whilst keeping my string height at 2.5-2mm

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Great deal and super service on Kiogon loom from Mick, sorry I originally put fb in other misspelt post

+++A1 deal and service on a Kiogon PBass loom, many thanks

white as is, nice

personally I like w/b/w on a burst Jazz with rosewood board clearly I am the only one 🙄

I asked Adertons about asking Fender for a run of medium scale Ps, this was the reply, Unfortunately we cannot control what Fender produces, as we just retail their products. However, if you did want a medium scale P-Bass, this would be something that the custom shop could fulfil – unfortunately not at the middle price point! so basically go Custom shop if you don't want standard

Whenever Fender Japan do a batch of short or medium scale basses they seem to sell out pretty quickly, yet why do none of the dealers like Andertons, who are closely aligned with Fender and Gibson and who are able to spec models to their customers tastes, ask for a short run of medium scales for their exclusive use, I guess that they don't see enough demand from players asking, yet they see plenty/enough people who want a £4k telecaster relic in the style and with the tone of Pete's purple Tele. Maybe worth asking Lee if that's something they would consider doing, if anyone has his ear, maybe a group purchase ?

This Hofner Galaxie, nothing to do with me, on ebay is just over 3kg according to the seller https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183844409700?ul_noapp=true the mini Jazz basses I had from DV247 were both about 3.4 Kg, the Precisions may be a little lighter good luck with the hunt;

so my suggestion would take your kit to Greenland 😉 Big Fjord